Before you commit to your next big flooring decision, it’s important to understand how to spend each and every dollar in the best possible way. Today, I’m showing you how to get the most from your facility flooring budget.

1) Take a Holistic Approach to Your Flooring Budget

There’s more to the cost of flooring than purchase price alone. Though it’s often beneficial to spend every dollar of your capital budget, it’s important to think to the long-term, and consider how your flooring choice will impact each year’s operating budget.

As a result, it’s important to be your own advocate for installation and maintenance. Though design partners and architects play an invaluable role in creating the right aesthetic and feel for your environment, after purchase, their role effectively stops. Future costs need to be borne by your organization, so it’s essential to choose flooring that minimizes the hidden costs of installation and maintenance.

2) Identify Your Flooring Priority

There are trade-offs with every flooring decision, and before you spend a dollar of your facility flooring budget, it’s important to work out exactly what you want from your flooring.

The same principle applies to design. Bright, colorful and modern designs can work wonders for transforming the look and feel of a space. However, lighter colors can increase the visibility of stains, and the more contemporary a design, the greater the risk it will become unfashionable and outdated a few years down the line.

3) Get the Look You Want with the Budget You Have

Innovations in flooring are providing organizations with a growing amount of design freedom, making it possible to get the look you want, with the budget you have.

For example, a high-impact area like an executive office may benefit from a high-end wool carpet, but issues with durability and cost make it impractical to use throughout. However, modular flooring offers a high degree of flexibility, and it’s often possible to combine different types of flooring together.

Hard-wearing carpet tiles can be used in high-traffic areas, and luxury flooring in low-traffic space, and thanks to a growing range of dye technologies, design congruence can be maintained throughout.

4) Understand How Flooring Impacts Your Organization

Your choice of flooring will have a far-reaching impact, and in some situations, flooring expenditure can actually reduce costs in other parts of the organization.